Author: F. Barry Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780333733622 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
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This is an authoritative and topical assessment of Ireland's impressive economic growth record which has seen it dubbed 'the Celtic tiger'. Leading scholars from Ireland and beyond discuss Ireland's spectacular performance in its economic, social and political contexts.
Author: Paul Sweeney Publisher: Oak Tree Press (Ireland) ISBN: Category : Competition Languages : en Pages : 284
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Paul Sweeney surveys the processes and economic circumstances that have worked to produce the modern Irish economic miracle. He also casts a critical eye on the conditions that create a have and have not society in modern Ireland.
Author: John W. O'Hagan Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd ISBN: 0717166643 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 393
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An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers. The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the last five years. In this new edition, the authors examine: - The broad historical context to a study of the Irish economy. - Ireland's hard landing, recovery and prospects for economic growth and employment in the years ahead. - The changing role of the state in policy making and the increasing importance of euro-zone governance and institutions, especially in the monetary area. - Taxation in all its dimensions, including the issue of national debt. - The importance of competitiveness as a major policy objective. - The changing emphasis on quality-of-life indicators and distribution as objectives of policy. - The role of regulation in various areas of the economy and society. - Energy and the environment, in particular the issue of security of supply. - Employment, unemployment and migration challenges facing Ireland. - Evidence on and policy issues relating to income and wealth. - The internationally traded sectors of manufacturing and services. - The importance of the health and education sectors, the rationale for state intervention and measures of effectiveness. - The importance of the agri-food sector in terms of production, distribution, and food safety.Through twelve editions, The Economy of Ireland holds an integral place in the literature on Ireland's economy.
Author: Peadar Kirby Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131796635X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
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Ireland underwent a dramatic economic and social transformation from the 1990s onwards, earning it the title the "Celtic Tiger". Rapid economic growth was accompanied by substantial in-migration. However in the later 2000s Ireland is also experiencing a severe economic recession. This book examines the nature and geographies of the Celtic Tiger, focusing on the evolution of industries such as information and communication technology and pharamaceuticals. It also examines the changing nature of social ties in cities, trends amongst knowledge workers and the experiences of return migrants. It concludes with reflections on the nature of the Celtic Tiger phenomenon and how this will shape Ireland’s geography and society into the future. This book was published as a special issue of Irish Geography.
Author: Richard Breen Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349204641 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 259
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Thirty years ago the Irish State embarked on a programme of development which rapidly transformed the economy and with it Irish society. This book is about that transformation and its effects. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between the policies pursued by the State and the class structure of Ireland. It argues that, despite promises of general prosperity, the benefits of Ireland's economic development have been very unevenly distributed, leading to a growing polarisation between social classes.
Author: Tony Fahey Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402069812 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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Frances Ruane, Director, Economic and Social Research Institute Irish and international scholars continue to be curious about Ireland’s exceptional economic success since the early 1990s. While growth rates peaked at the turn of the millennium, they have since continued at levels that are high by any current international or historical Irish measures. Despite differences of view among Irish economists and policymakers on the relative importance of the factors that have driven growth, there is widespread agreement that the process of globalisation has contributed to Ireland’s economic development. In this context, it is helpful to recognise that globalisation has created huge changes in most developed and developing countries and has been associated, inter alia, with reductions in global income disparity but increased income disparity within individual countries. This book reflects on how, from a social perspective, Ireland has prospered over the past decade. In that period we have effectively moved from being a semi-developed to being a developed economy. While the book’s main focus is on the social changes induced by economic growth, there is also recognition that social change has facilitated economic growth. Although many would regard the past decade as a period when economic and social elements have combined in a virtuous cycle, there is a lingering question as to the extent to which we have better lives now that we are economically ‘better off’.
Author: Stephen Kinsella Publisher: Orpen Press ISBN: 1842182218 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 521
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Ireland has experienced the largest destruction of wealth of any developed country during the 2007–10 economic crisis. Understanding Ireland's Economic Crisis brings together policy makers, union representatives and internationally recognised academics to examine Ireland's crisis from many different angles. The objective of this book is to provide an understanding of what caused the crisis and to develop a set of key recommendations to guide Ireland's policy makers into a post-crisis era. Understanding Ireland's Economic Crisis is written for a general audience, and should be of great interest to policy makers, researchers and students. Contributors: Stephen Kinsella (UL), Anthony Leddin (UL), Colm McCarthy (UCD), Brendan Walsh (UCD), Michael O'Sullivan (Credit Suisse), Ronan Lyons (University of Oxford, Daft.ie), Eoin Gahan (Forfás), Morgan Kelly (UCD), Michael Taft (UNITE), Edward Nell (New School for Social Research), K.P.V. O'Sullivan (London School of Economics) and K. Vela Velupillai (University of Trento).
Author: André Hakizimana Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1475991746 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 131
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Ireland's economic policies have not served it well in recent years, but not many people understand why the country's people continue to suffer. André Hakizimana, a resident of Ireland who holds a master's degree in economics, examines the country's economic policies and provides solutions for growth. This study does not intend to criticize Irish policy makers, but instead seeks to address the origins of Irish economic growth, financial crises and Irish recessions. It considers the following questions: - What caused economic turmoil in Ireland's financial markets in recent years? - How have some begun working together to create healthy growth? - Why did the country slip into recessions before and after independence? Neither the 2008 recession in Ireland nor the country's current financial crisis were caused by an international crisis or the crash of the Anglo-Irish bank. Instead, there are fundamental problems in the Irish economic strategy that are to blame-and they could continue to hurt the country unless action is taken. Discover a blueprint to grow the economy in Ireland, and learn why past efforts have failed by exploring The Irish Economy-Past, Present, and Future.
Author: Joel Mokyr Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136599592 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 345
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Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a million and a half people and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Why the Irish economy failed to grow, and ‘why Ireland starved’ remains an unresolved riddle of economic history. Professor Mokyr maintains that the ‘Hungry Forties’ were caused by the overall underdevelopment of the economy during the decades which preceded the famine. In Why Ireland Starved he tests various hypotheses that have been put forward to account for this backwardness. He dismisses widespread arguments that Irish poverty can be explained in terms of over-population, an evil land system or malicious exploitation by the British. Instead, he argues that the causes have to be sought in the low productivity of labor and the insufficient formation of physical capital – results of the peculiar political and social structure of Ireland, continuous conflicts between landlords and tenants, and the rigidity of Irish economic institutions. Mokyr’s methodology is rigorous and quantitative, in the tradition of the New Economic History. It sets out to test hypotheses about the causal connections between economic and non-economic phenomena. Irish history is often heavily coloured by political convictions: of Dutch-Jewish origin, trained in Israel and working in the United States. Mokyr brings to this controversial field not only wide research experience but also impartiality and scientific objectivity. The book is primarily aimed at numerate economic historians, historical demographers, economists specializing in agricultural economics and economic development and specialists in Irish and British nineteenth-century history. The text is, nonetheless, free of technical jargon, with the more complex material relegated to appendixes. Mokyr’s line of reasoning is transparent and has been easily accessible and useful to readers without graduate training in economic theory and econometrics since ists first publication in 1983.
Author: Peadar Kirby Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230278035 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 245
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Since the first edition there have been fundamental changes in the Irish growth model. The sudden collapse of the Irish economy in 2008 raises questions such as: why the sudden and deep decline in economic growth? What are the prospects for a return to growth? Answering these questions and more, this book is the definitive work on the Celtic Tiger.
Author: F. Barry
Author: Paul Sweeney
Author: John W. O'Hagan
Author: Peadar Kirby
Author: Richard Breen
Author: Tony Fahey
Author: Stephen Kinsella
Author: André Hakizimana
Author: Joel Mokyr
Author: Peadar Kirby